You could do the same thing through Ghost, which has an API, and not be using a service that proudly platforms the Tates and nazis.
replyI don’t know anything about the specific situation you’re referencing. That being said, getting mad at an organization, one that is built to be a “platform” for people to share their words, for not going out of its way to police which people share which words, seems to me to be unproductive at best, if not actively close minded and tribalistic.
replyoh it's more than the org. IIRC, it's also the founder.
replyGhost would cost $288/month (or $241/month paid yearly).
replyThis is super useful even if I just grab it as an idea to emulate. Have you used an agent to copy and paste for you ?
replyI've not tried that, honestly it's such a quick process already that waiting for some kind of browser automation to copy and paste would likely be slower.
replyAt 66,000 messages/week, you’d actually be spending around $50-$80 monthly with SES and a VPS + database for handling bounces and unsubscribe requests.
reply... right, and then I'm responsible for maintaining that infrastructure, and I have to think about email deliverability as well.
replyPlus Substack discovery does carry some value - about 65% of my new subscribers come via the various Substack mechanisms, the rest are from my own site or "direct" (which I think means people landed on my substack directly and then chose to subscribe.)
It's sort of disgusting that inbox clutter from a publishing service is the dominant delivery paradigm as opposed to browsers natively checking bookmarked RSS feeds.
replyEmail is so well designed, so resilient, and so ubiquitous that's very hard to displace it's use as a central check-in.
replyRight which is why I'd only suggest the browser as an alternative. Imho a browser is something I open when I proactively am seeking information/entertainment and thereby fits blog reading better than email which is more like an interrupt.
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